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bargle0··on The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire
How else are they going to roll damage for the great axe?
bargle0··on AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight
I’ve heard it called the Hotel California pattern.
bargle0··on Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table
Improv brought me joy. There isn’t anything like it.
bargle0··on DDRamDisk: RAM disk, a disk based on RAM memory chips
Didn’t UUnet do something like this 25-30 years ago for Usenet indices, or something like that?
bargle0··on Epic Games to pay $245M for tricking users into making unwanted charges
Don’t play games from developers and publishers that don’t respect you.
bargle0··on Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy
Careful. The monkey’s paw curls …
bargle0··on Ask HN: Has anyone worked at the US National Labs before?
There are also FFRDCs and other similar organizations outside of the DOE. For example, JPL is a NASA FFRDC.
bargle0··on An Update on the Open Game License (OGL)
We don’t need WotC or Hasbro.
bargle0··on Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
Not sound, but visual: The moment the video stream goes from blurry to crisp.
bargle0··on Moiré no more (2021)
A certain YouTube creator wears striped shirts on camera a lot, but I feel like he should probably know better. I wonder if it’s an intentional, subtle troll?
bargle0··on How to spot a 'short snorter'
People snort cocaine through rolled up bills.

At least, that’s what’s depicted in movies and television.

bargle0··on Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)
BLAME! fits in, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame!

bargle0··on How to spot a 'short snorter'
These days, and probably for the last 50 or 60 years, anything involving a snorter and rolled up bill would be associated with something other than signatures.
bargle0··on Proofs about Programs
Infinity is not a natural number.
bargle0··on Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
I haven’t had any trouble with it.
bargle0··on Story: “It would be career limiting..."
Yep. It seems like it got hugged.
bargle0··on Google is shutting down Stadia
Can you get your game saves out of stadia and in to a portable format? I have to imagine this is going to wreck a lot of people who like to play games with persistent state over the long term.
bargle0··on Fishing gear accounts for an alarming amount of plastic in oceans (2021)
What are the alternatives? Back every store up to a rail line?
bargle0··on New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published
As a non-American, do you feel like you get an honest depiction of what America is like when you consume American media?

America as shown by Hollywood is a different world.

bargle0··on The case of the vanishing cafeteria tray
Cafeteria trays disappeared from dining halls at my alma mater when they were pilfered and repurposed in to sleds for the 1996 blizzard.
bargle0··on No Army? No Problem: Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece
It makes sense to talk up the guys you beat, since it amplifies your own achievements. Did the victors write about the Spartans?
bargle0··on The cursed d65536
If the d12 is for the great axe, then the d14 is for the greater axe and the d16 is for the greatest axe.
bargle0··on Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
You can still buy actual buckling spring keyboards from Unicomp.
bargle0··on I'm so sorry everyone. Or: why I'm switching to Cloudflare
You get what you pay for. If you’re getting something for “free”, you’re the one getting paid for.
bargle0··on Podman 4.0
Is it still a PITA to make RHEL containers with Podman?
bargle0··on The Go language's first commit (1972)
Not unlike Apple steamrolling the Swift language from ANL.

https://www.anl.gov/mcs/swift-fast-parallel-scripting-langua...

bargle0··on Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)
In college, I drove an ancient car with a failing manual transmission that required double clutching to work. It was not fun.
bargle0··on I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
“Number 22!”

“We don’t say that one anymore. You’re going to have to leave.”

bargle0··on More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
Administration salaries and buildings. Just because that new building cost $200M, it doesn’t mean the guy’s name who’s on it donated all of that.

Where football coaches have very large salaries (EDIT: compared to peer schools), those salaries are paid by athletic department revenue and boosters.

bargle0··on Let's Settle This
There are serpentine pans that optimize for perimeter, specifically marketed to edge people. They will be fine.
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